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Sep 14, 2011

Well With My Soul

"For I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances." Phil 4:11

A lesson learned over and over and over again... or maybe I just haven't actually learned it yet. I'm all about having little reminders through my house of the woman I want to be. This one is above my mantle.

I found an old piece of chip board in the back of my classroom that had seen better days - it was stained, painted on, and just generally unusable for our art purposes in the class. I didn't want to throw it away, so I thought I would make something out of it. (symbolic, no?) So, I printed off the letters on my computer and drew them with Pencil. Then I used grey acrylic paint and painted around the letters. It only took me about half an hour, and I love the look of it above my mantle.

I feel the same way when I take an old piece of something and am restoring it. I think--that's what God does with us. We are dirty, dingy, dinged and damaged, and discarded and he takes us and remakes us making us something beautiful.

To Anonymous who asked how I did the letters - for this project, I used a projector in my classroom to project the letters on the board. I copied around them with a pencil, and then carefully painted around them. I show another option in this post - http://www.mamamarcie.blogspot.com/2011/08/be-present.html

You can also use tape to block off your letters, though I found it easier with such large letters just to carefully paint around the edges.